Which party's electoral/demographic coalition is more unstable?

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Republicans. Soccons are not going to keep sharing the same party with libertarians. One or the other has to crack.

[Donerail]

Republicans. Soccons are not going to keep sharing the same party with libertarians. One or the other has to crack.

libertarians don't actually exist outside of the internet

Really? More than 1 million people voted for Libertarian Party in the congressional elections in 2010, to say nothing of members of the Republican Party with libertarian leanings. Libertarianism is a very real, and btw strengthening, force in American politics.

so? ralph nader received almost three times that many votes in 2000 alone. how many libertarians have been elected locally compared to the green party? how many americans favor cutting entitlements, let alone abolishing them? how many are on board with legalizing child labor or heroin or ending the tyranny of food safety laws? i could go on but you get the idea. just because a few idiots like glenn beck or neil boortz in the media call themselves 'libertarian' (they aren't btw) or you occasionally see john stossel let outside of his cage doesn't mean that libertarianism is at all an actually relevant movement.

According to the 2006 Kirby-Boaz study, it's something like 14%.